byzantine architecture. byzantine period lasts from 500 – 1453ad in the eastern christian world...
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Byzantine Period
• Lasts from 500 – 1453AD in the Eastern Christian world• Constantine founded a new Roman capitol at Byzantium in
330AD and called it Constantinople. It is now called Istanbul, in modern-day Turkey.
• When Rome fell to the Barbarians in 476AD, Constantinople became the center of the surviving portion of the Roman Empire until it was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453AD.
• We will compare three buildings in this time period to see what makes the style Byzantine: San Vitale in Ravenna, the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, and San Marco in Venice, Itay.